Establishing non-police (and non-state) ways of keeping people safe in your community isn& #39;t just some pilot project to prove left policy ideas can work in the future, it& #39;s a life and death necessity right now

Bc of COVID middle class ppl are getting used to idea of precautions you should take to protect ppl more vulnerable then you
A mask might be uncomfortable
& unfamiliar, but it keeps your neighbours safe

They need to start to see "not relying on the police" as that type of thing

As a young healthy person u might prefer to go out but u stay in bc inviting virus could be deadly for some1 old or immunocomp.d

Similarly as a wht person u might prefer to have cops do things for u, but inviting them could be deadly for some1 blk, indigenous, poor, mentally ill

and the alternative isn& #39;t just replacing the police with a good version somehow, or flipping the "cops exist" setting from on to off, it& #39;s the actual hard and constant work of actively caring for your community and building structures in & for it